News:

Anna has just been appointed a visiting professor at the UNLV in Las Vegas.

In October she will celebrate the birthdays of two prominent living composers: Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki and Virko Baley. She will perform Gorecki’s piano concerto at the Polish Composers Festival in Bielsko-Biala, Poland and Baley’s Klytemnestra at UNLV in Las Vegas.

Anna will return to Harvard University on October 25, to present an evening of music by Karol Szymanowski. There will be performances, talks and a documentary movie by Dagnara Drzazga. The same program will be held in the Polish Consulate in NYC, on October 28.

On November 19th Anna will celebrate 90 years of Polish Independence at the Corcoran Museum in Washington DC featuring the music of Chopin, Paderewski, Bacewicz and Szymanowski.

Anna will also appear on the Ewell Concert Series at the College of William and Mary with the esteemed violinist, Charles Castleman on November 15th.

News from Asia:

Anna spent most of the summer in Thailand where she taught, performed and scuba-dived. She appeared on Thai TV and gave master-classes for the Bangkok Chopin Society. She also visited Angkor Watt in Cambodia and was moved by the beauty of the Kingdom and the unspoiled land.

In January Anna will present master-classes and recitals in Hong-Kong (Baptist University) and Singapore (Nanwang Academy of Fine Arts).

Past Highlights:

Anna was invited to present a solo recital at the prestigious National Gallery series in Washington, D.C. on June 8.

The same program was presented at the College of William and Mary (April 27^th), Forte’s Salon in New Haven (May 1) and the Polish Society at Harvard University (May 2.)

     Press Coverage of the Events:

     HamptonRoads.com
     The DoG Street Journal

Anna was also invited to perform for the LIKHA'T DIWA Foundation in Las Vegas on May 17. The proceeds will benefit music students in the USA and Philippines.

Anna was named “one of the world’s greatest pianists” by the Indian PRWire, after an eclectic collaborative performance entitled “East meets West,” with Chakrapani Singh on the geet’ar and Vinod Pathak on the tabla. The performance and the master class took place at Alliance Francaise in New Delhi, India in January, and it was reviewed by the Times of India.

On the same trip Anna visited Nepal and the Himalayas, and she successfully reached the Mt. Everest Base Camp.

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Anna's recording of Complete Mazurkas by Karol Szymanowski was reviewed by Bernard Holland of The New York Times. Her recording was also named "superior to any other interpretations that came before or after" by Adrian Corleonis of Fanfare Magazine. (March/April 2007, p. 235-237)

Anna was deeply honored by the visit of esteemed pianist Christian Zimerman during her Homage to Karol Szymanowski concert on March 29, 2007 at Merkin Hall in New York.

Solo and Chamber Music Performances:

June 13, Sulkowski’s Castle, Poland

June 8, 6:30 Pm, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.

May 2, Cambridge, MA, Polish Society at Harvard

May 1, New Haven, Forte’s Salon

April 27, 7 pm Ewell Hall, The College of William and Mary

April 22, 8 pm, with Wind Symphony, World premiere of a piece by Sofia Serghi

April 20, 7 pm, Composer’s Concert, The College of William and Mary

Anna Kijanowska was celebrating Szymanowski's Year (1882-1937) in the USA, Japan, Indonesia and Poland.

Tokyo, Japan, Embassy of Poland October 23, 2007

New York, Weill Recital at Carnegie Hall October 13, at 2 PM
Presented by the Kosciuszko Foundation

Washington DC, Embassy of Poland October 6, at 7 PM

New York, De Lamar Mansion, Consulate General of Poland October 4, at 7:30 PM

Jakarta, Indonesia, Gedung Kesenian July 6, at 7 PM

Kielce, Poland,Pałac Biskupów June 20, at 5 PM

New York, Merkin Hall March 29, at 8 PM

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Williamsburg, The College of William and Mary March 24 at 8 PM

Orchestral Appearances:

Anna performed the Lutosławski Piano Concerto three times this year during the 7th International Festival, Siverski Music Nights in Chernigov, Ukraine and during the 11th International Festival, Musical Nights in Kiev.

She was also invited to perform Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin with the YRSO at the Ferguson Center at Christopher Newport University, VA, as part of the America's 400th anniversary celebration.